Baby Wish List: Christmas 2012

I'm still missing a few Christmas gifts from last year. Also birthday ones. You know who you are so please...

Cloth Diapers
I would like to try contour diapers this year but for fogeys, pocket diapers are just fine, thank you.

Educational toys
I like to learn. Thank you very much. Leap Frog please.

Books
I may not be able to read but flipping through the pictures work fine for me.

Baby Tales: Almost Christmas

I've stopped counting my days long ago. I'm so much more than a year older now, as my avid fans can attest and the counting was so last year.

I've been doing good, if anyone has been worrying about me. I've had some hiccups earlier today, a cold and a fever last month. There's a saying that only a fool can not catch a fever and I've proven myself quite the toddler genius.

I've lost weight for the cameras but I've realized the errors of dieting and have since restarted on fruits, oatmeal and shredded meat. I don't like sugary sweet stuff but chocolate is love. Pik nik is another favorite.

I'm quite steady on my feet now and just a bit more and I'll be ready to take on the world. I think we'll start on Palawan or Baguio. Though really, why not Tagaytay as well? Hongkong Disneyland is also part of the intermediate plans. I hear Mickey would like to discuss some of my thoughts on world domination.

My favorite word right now is Papa. I love whispering it on people's ears and they find it to be quite amusing. Yum, food.

To everyone who loves me, I love you all back.

Day 239: Baby Tales

Last weekend, I got myself measured at Rustan's and I'm 2'3" already. Of course, I'm a little bit taller than that by today. Just a little more and I'll be taller than everyone else with the vitamins I've been taking.

PM1 is worried over the fact that I pooed 5 times today. It's not so bad, right? But she thinks I have tummyaches. She says if I'm not ok by tomorrow, we're going to the doctor. Ugh!

It's so hot!!! SO HOT!!! We bought an almost industrial-sized electric fan because my neck rashes are getting worse with the heat in spite of getting two baths per day. My mug may look great but if I want to model, I gotta keep my body in good shape too.

I hope everyone will think of me always so that they will stay happy.

Loves to all..

Day 205: Baby Tales

I didn't mean to do it. I swear I didn't. I was only being friendly. Please please please don't think bad of me.

I only wanted to say hi. I didn't know my voice was too loud when I said hi... twice. I wasn't yelling. I don't know why he would cry. I said nice things, really.

And I didn't really grab him when he started crying. I was only trying to touch him. I wanted to comfort him. I know I held a little too strongly... and maybe a little too long. It's not my fault. I'm just a wee baby.

I'm not a bully!

Please don't think bad of me.

I love you!

Day 200: Baby Tales

World, I am a big baby now.

I eat solid food. To date, I have eaten bananas, oranges, oatmeal, squash, mangoes, potatoes, apples, avocados, and I will eat even more.

I can crawl all over my 'rent's bed and back. I can dive to get to places faster and when all else fails, I will roll over and over.

I do not lie back for my bath anymore. I insist on sitting up and standing to get all the places to be cleaned up soaped down.

I fit into toddler clothes. No more baby clothes for me. I don't like suits unless it's cold but I will deign to wear them on special occasions as long as said occasions will get me photographed on my good side.

I insist on sleeping alone. No more singing me to sleep. Singing me to half-sleep yes, but no more on the cuddling, unless I feel bad and achy, then that's another matter.

So please, be prepared. Tomorrow, I will be much more.

Day 182: Baby Tales

I'm going to be 6 month-old this week. I expect celebrations and such. Maybe even the Christmas gifts I should have received by now. Hey, GODPARENTS!!!

What has been happening 'round here lately? We have a new point and shoot. SN1 will probably post about it in her blog someday. I've got new pics everyday. They're including unmentionables like the one above. But at least I'm wearing blue. I'm owning this color. It's mine!!! No one else can have it.

Everyone has been into vitamins lately. I've got my Cherifer, SN1 is taking organic iron and folic acid, SN2 has his Stresstabs and GM even has her One-A-Day 50+. I'm actually big for my age but with my 'rents' heights, I may need a little boost.

I've got some clothes at the tailor's. They're so slow these days. Really, for a VIP like me to wait so long for my suit is a no-no. These people should know better. We also bought some RTW and a pair of shoes today. They say I'm growing up way too fast that they bought some for a one-year-old already. We'll see how long these will last me.

Tomorrow, I'm starting on solids. Bananas first then squash three days after. SN1 wanted to get me Tommee Tippee but there aren't any available at the mall we went to so we had to make do with Avent. She says she'll check on Monday in Makati for the sippy cups. I'm not going to be sipping on silicone nipples in half a year. I'm a big boy now.

Day 173: Baby Tales

I've  been able to beat the cold last week. Really, everyone tends to overreact. I'm breastfed. People shouldn't worry about me so much.

We have a new toy at home. The 'rents are having a blast just clicking away. I'm just hoping no nude pictures of me leak out. They can be so trigger-happy sometimes.

I'm getting some stuff tailor-made. There's a formal event happening at the end of this month. I wonder if I can manage to walk by then?

Almost 6 months of my life has passed. So many things to learn. Once I start walking, the world is going to be mine.

Day 162: Mommy Tales

It's heartbreaking seeing my baby sick with a cold. It hasn't left since Saturday last week after we went home late on the MRT from the baby fair. It could be the fact it was late, the MRT was crowded or anything at all. So hard for me to understand why I didn't take a stand on that one.

We went to the doctor last Thursday and she said it's asthma. I want a second opinion. He definitely hates the nebulizer. I'm happy she didn't give him any other medication but it's tough when he cries the whole time we're using it. Definitely dreading tomorrow when I'm going to work and someone else has to check the exact volume.

I hope he gets better soon. My breasts are gonna get plugged again if he keeps on insisting he isn't hungry. After the week before of him wanting his food all the time, this week is hard with him not wanting any and having to be forced to eat. How will he get better if he's like that?

Day 156: Baby Tales

GM has come back. Yay! I missed the up and down trick. Maybe now I'll get to sleep in the afternoons.

I've been eating twice of what I used to these days. SN1 says she needs an electric now. Tsk! She should just stay home and let me eat from her. No fowl there.

Day 155: Mommy Tales

Thank goodness I've read a lot about poop during the first months that when Ren stopped pooping everyday, we didn't go on complete panic mode at the house. Everyone got really worried. He stopped pooping for 3 days and the last, 6 days. I had to recheck the sites I've read and got back the same message, as long as it's not over a week and he doesn't look like he's having any tummy aches and is healthy and happy, there is no problem at all. As long as he's eating well and when his poop comes out, they're as creamy as ever, then he doesn't have constipation and everything is just fine.

His cradle cap is mostly gone now. I haven't been on any medication for a while and that helps. JR got rid of the scaly stuff on the top of Ren's head and baby was bald for a while. The hair has grown back up now. A bit more of the cap has grown but with a little baby oil (sunflower and grape seed oil based), it was easy enough to get rid of without his getting bald once again.

My father-in-law has been taking care of baby. They have been getting along quite well. I'm glad to have good in-law relationships. It's better this way but it's embarrassing to be so dependent on a guy. I wish I can be supermom again but I'm so sleepy these days.

Ren and I went to the office last week. I'm such a proud mom. He was so well-behaved. Not my words but my officemates'. Such a cute baby, really.

I hate going back to work after a weekend. There's the rush and the feeling of how no one in the office really knows just how guilty it feels for a nursing mother not to be there and nurse her child. I wish, really, I just wish that I could have the luxury of quitting and staying at home and just feed little Ren all the time.

Day 142: Baby Tales

I've been waking up upside down these days. How did I do that? One day, SN1 keeps feeding me sideways and the next day, I'm already rolling by myself. No one leaves me alone now. Tsk!

Really, I should get a bigger bed by now. I'm already over 7 kilos. I deserve a bigger bed.

Everyone is worried about my pooing. So what if it takes my wonderful little body 3 days to poo? Nothing wrong with that, right?

I want to visit my gramps in the mountains but I don't want to commute. Someone please please please get me. I want to visit my cousin too. Lots of things I've got to teach him.

Grandma is going to be leaving for a while. She better come back. I hate it when I miss people.

Grandpa from SN2 is going to come visit me for a while. I wonder if he'll like me? What am I saying? Of course, he'll love me. I'm adorable.

Loves to everyone. And peace too.